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Wednesday, 26 February 2014

German Cartoonist Apologizes for Depiction of Facebook's Marc Zuckerberg

FSWC Reports:

From the Associated Press via ynetnews.com:

A German cartoonist has apologized for causing offense by depicting Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
as a hooked-nose octopus, after Jewish groups complained it resembled Nazi propaganda.

Cartoonist Burkhard Mohr
says he had intended to make a point about Facebook devouring rival
WhatsApp and didn't realize the parallels to the Nazis' anti-Semitic
portrayal of Jews as hungry tentacle monsters.